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267 DAYS ... AND STILL NO WMD FOUND IN IRAQ
Mon Jan 26 20:41:03 2004
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267 DAYS ... AND STILL NO WMD FOUND IN
IRAQ.
Roadside
bomb kills Iraqi as U.S. forces search for 3 missing soldiers
: U.S. Forces aided by Iraqis searched the muddy waters of the
Tigris River on Monday in northern Iraq for a soldier and two
pilots missing after a helicopter crashed while searching for
a patrol boat that had capsized.
Kay:
Lack Of Iraqi WMD Requires Review: U.S.
intelligence agencies need to explain why their research
indicated Iraq possessed banned weapons before the
American-led invasion, says the outgoing top U.S. inspector,
who now believes Saddam Hussein had no such arms.
In case you missed it:
The
Vanishing Case for War: Iraq's weapons of mass
destruction didn't exist. This discovery ought to put the
American people on constructive notice that the functioning of
our democracy is threatened by the nexus of the White House
and a too-pliant CIA. This
is a must read:
Cheney
'waged war' on Blair Iraq strategy: Dick Cheney,
US vice-president, "waged a guerrilla war" against
attempts by Tony Blair, the British prime minister, to secure
United Nations backing for the invasion of Iraq.
Cheney:
US democratic reform demand: Vice President Dick
Cheney asked the EU to join the US in pressing for democratic
reform from Iran to Mauritania. "If they (Americans) want
to produce democracy in the Middle East, they'd better do it
first in Iraq as they promised," Arab League Secretary
General Amr Musa told Reuters.
The CIA revolt
against
the White House: Former intelligence official
Larry C. Johnson blasts the Bush administration's
"outright pattern of bullying." In my view, this
administration is actually involved with aiding and abetting
terrorists -- because when you expose clandestine human
intelligence sources, you aid and abet terrorists.
UK:
Pressure mounting over WMD doubt: Lewis Moonie, a
former defence minister who was part of Mr Blair's team at the
time of the conflict, said the government may soon have to
concede it was wrong on its main justification for war.
To
Germans, U.S. Motives Now Suspect: "We've
gone from the lighthouse on the hill to an image of an
aggressive imperial force that wants to control the world that
uses everything from ICBMs to Starbucks coffee to get people
to tow the line," says John Kornblum, a former American
assistant secretary of state who now heads the Berlin office
of the international investment bank Lazard
Australia:
Howard defiant over Iraq war involvement "If
you're going to send Australians off to a conflict and the
primary reason was to identify and eliminate these weapons of
mass destruction and then subsequently, that's an invalid
reason and purpose, then you've got to up front and honest -
talk to the Australian people about what went wrong."
Throwing
the book at our leaders: What’s got into the
world when those who claim to be fearless in pursuit of the
truth – the great and glorious media, schooled, we are told
in the art of assembling the dissembled – are afraid to
utter the word lie. LIE!
US
must quit Iraq before vote, say Sunnis : An
influential Sunni Muslim group in Iraq said yesterday it was
opposed to partial elections scheduled for the summer and
wanted a vote taken only when American forces had left the
country.
"The Greatest
Country in the World": America no longer
resembles the America that, for all its problems, was once
"the greatest country in the world" and many
Americans have not yet noticed. Post World War II concepts of
family and community have been destroyed to make way for the
brave new world of crony capitalism and Old Testament religion
in the White House.
George
Soros: The US is now in the hands of a group of extremists
: Fundamentalism has spawned an ideology of American supremacy
Charley
Reese: No Stinking Empire: The truth is quite
simple: An empire increases the danger for the American
people, as empires always make more enemies than friends, not
to mention inciting envy and hatred. Maintaining an empire
will eventually break us, as it has every single empire of the
past.
Masterful
Machiavellianism: Machiavellianism: The political
doctrine of Machiavelli, which denies the relevance of
morality in political affairs and holds that craft and deceit
are justified in pursuing and maintaining political power.
The Dangers of
Insanity:
John Ashcroft and U.S. History: The American
imperial grand strategy (Chomsky) is being tested today, just
as it was tested in Vietnam. My suggestion for all who believe
in self-determination, multi-lateralism, international law,
and goodwill among nations, is to begin our oppositional
conception of American foreign policy by taking some concrete
first steps.
Are
Parallels To Nazi Germany Crazy? : My conclusion
is that some comparisons between modern times and Nazi Germany
are valid, and some are not. Enough are valid, in my opinion,
however, for us to be wary, and as vigilant as humanly
possible.
U.S.
Probes Killings of 4 Iraqis in Taxi : Iraqi
police accuse American soldiers traveling in a northbound
military convoy of killing the Iraqis, including a woman and a
7-year-old boy.
Iraq: Truck
Drivers
Wanted. $125,000 per Year Iraqi's Need Not Apply
General:
Fielding an Iraqi army could take 3-5 years :
Iraq's newly forming armed forces might take longer to create
than initially estimated and require untold millions of
dollars, the director of the Iraqi military training program
said Thursday.
Immunity Pact For
American Troops in Iraq Still Unsettled : The
United States has yet to begin serious negotiations with
Iraqis on an agreement to guarantee that American troops in
Iraq will remain immune from arrest and prosecution by local
authorities once a new Baghdad government takes over in June,
according to U.S. and Iraqi officials.
The
Nanny in Chief: Bush thinks he knows what's good
for you, and he'll spend money to prove it. There's a strange
exception to the Bush doctrine. It ends when you reach
America's shores. Within the U.S., the Bush Administration has
shown an unusually hostile attitude toward the exercise of
personal freedom.
Hill
Budget Office Sees 10-Year Deficits : Federal
deficits will total nearly $2.4 trillion over the next decade,
the Congressional Budget Office projected Monday, a worsening
of nearly $1 trillion since its last forecast in August.
The
Folly of Fingerprinting: The U.S. federal
government has "a master list of 5 million people
worldwide thought to be potential terrorists or
criminals." Five million people! Exactly how is this list
being assembled? No wonder they're calling in the SWAT teams
over 5-year-olds and Welsh insurance agents.
Guantanamo
Spy Cases Evaporate : Chaplain and Arabic
Translator Are Now Facing Only Lesser Charges
Hamas
Proposes 10-Year Truce for Israeli Pullback : A
top official of the main Palestinian militant group, Hamas,
has said it could declare a 10-year truce with Israel if the
Jewish state withdrew from territory occupied since 1967.
Gadhafi
says world is 'deaf and blind' to Israel's WMDs :
"I would say that there is a terrorism of individuals and
a state terrorism; both need to be stopped. If someone
destroys an inhabited building with an air-launched missile
you cannot say that it is not terrorism," he said.
Lieberman
Lodges Protest With CNN Over "Jew Question":
US Senator Joseph Lieberman complained to CNN on Friday after
the cable news channel's anchor, Bill Hemmer, asked the
Democratic presidential candidate how he felt "as a
Jew" about the security fence.
01/25/04: 'Little
point' in WMD search : The sharp
change in emphasis by the CIA-directed Iraq Survey Group
follows the admission on Friday by its outgoing leader, Dr
David Kay, that his 1,000-man organisation had not found
evidence of stockpiles, and that he now believed they had
never existed.
Powell:
Possible Iraq Had No Banned Arms : Secretary of
State Colin Powel held out the possibility Saturday that
prewar Iraq may not have possessed weapons of mass
destruction.
Iraq's
WMD: the big lie?: The justification for war:
With the resignation of David Kay from the Iraq Survey Group,
the pressure could not be greater on Blair to explain where he
got the idea that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
UK: Spy
chiefs warn PM: don’t blame us for war :
BRITISH intelligence chiefs launched a pre-emptive strike
against Tony Blair last night, ahead of the publication of the
Hutton report, and blamed the government for pressurising them
into cherry-picking intelligence to justify the war on Iraq.
Betrayed: The 50
